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by ikinsey 1349 days ago
Did the demand for products from polluting industry disappear in the developed world or did the factories just move overseas? Shifting blame to "underdeveloped and corrupt nations" does nothing to address the fact that developed countries still demand goods from polluting industry and do little to promote more sustainable forms of economic development.
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There is no such thing as a polluting industry- or rather, any industry at all could be a polluting one. Pollution is a waste byproduct of what is being produced. The act of polluting is disposing of said byproducts in an unmanaged way (out smokestacks, into rivers, etc).